“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything as imperfect and fallible as an actual human being?” — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“The time of testing, and of playing, was over. This was the final duel for one of them. Now they were fighting for their… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“But I saw the pair of them, along with everyone else. Hard to miss. Him towering like a raggedy scarecrow in that flapping black… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.” — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't.… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“There's the road to heaven, and there's the road to hell, and there? That's the road to Faerie.” — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“Have you seen Marcus?" he asked his ugly friend. "Yes, he was stoping some people in the Violet Room from climbing the curtains." "What… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
